{"id":1013,"date":"2024-12-03T05:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webystrata.co.uk\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:16:01","slug":"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11437 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM.png\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-13-2026-03_45_07-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel<\/h1>\n<p>You might need to create FTP accounts in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/cpanel-hosting.html\"> cPanel<\/a>, so that you and\/or your developers can upload and download content from your website.<\/p>\n<p>In order to do this, start by logging into the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/cpanel-hosting.html\"> cPanel<\/a> account that you want to create the FTP account for.\u00a0<span class=\"doc\">You can find our guide on this here!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, navigate to:<\/p>\n<pre>Files &gt;&gt; FTP Accounts<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1014 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webystrata.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button.jpeg\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1386\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button.jpeg 1386w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-300x65.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-1024x223.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_button-768x167.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will be looking at this page:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1015 size-full\" title=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webystrata.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page.jpeg\" alt=\"How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel\" width=\"1253\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page.jpeg 1253w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-300x182.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-1024x620.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ftp_accounts_page-768x465.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1253px) 100vw, 1253px\" \/><\/p>\n<section id=\"how-to-create-an-ftp-account-in-cpanel\">Firstly, choose and input a username and password for your account.The next box is \u201cDirectory\u201d. Unless the account you\u2019re adding should only be allowed to access a specific subdirectory of the site, this can be left as blank. This will allow the FTP user to access all the files in the site\u2019s home directory.<\/p>\n<p>The last box is for \u201cQuota\u201d. This determines how much bandwidth the FTP account can use. By default, this can be left as unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can click \u201cCreate\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create an FTP Account In cPanel You might need to create FTP accounts in cPanel, so that you and\/or your developers can upload and download content from your website. In order to do this, start by logging into the cPanel account that you want to create the FTP account for.\u00a0You can find our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11438,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/11438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}